ZADAR, Jan 26 (Hina) - Zadar hoteliers said they were hopeful to see tourists flocking at the local resorts as of the coming summer.
ZADAR, Jan 26 (Hina) - Zadar hoteliers said they were hopeful to
see tourists flocking at the local resorts as of the coming summer.
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The representatives of the local Tourist Board and hotel
managers gathered on a session held at the city hall Friday on
which the Tourist Board's secretary, Josip Vrsaljko, said he had
been receiving "at least five calls each day" from his old foreign
customers, interested in spending their vacations in Zadar and its
surroundings.
Frane Skoblar, manager of the Zadar's Turisthotel Co. said the
Zaton resort (within his company) could make 250,000 overnight
stays in the next summer, "considering the interest I am aware of."
But, in spite of all of the optimism, a problem of remaining
refugees was yet to be solved. Skoblar said around 1,500 of them
were still at the Zaton resort, but added they could be easily
moved to other Turisthotel's hotels.
"Their real number is anyway about half of what the register
shows, as some of them are already elsewhere while the others come
and go once a week. I think we can move them quite painlessly," he
said, asking Zadar Mayor Bozidar Kalmeta for assistance.
"Should the refugees leave by April, the necessary
reconstruction of the resort could be over by beginning of June and
we would be ready for the season," he added.
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